The Padma Awards were announced on the eve of Republic Day, on January 25, 2024. A total of 132 celebrities will be given Padma Awards for this year, 2024, in which the names of many famous personalities in the cinema world are also included. Prominent among them are the names of Vyjayantimala and Konidela Chiranjeevi have been selected for the Padma Vibhushan and names of Mithun Chakraborty and Usha Uthup have been selected for the Padma Bhushan Award.

These awards will be given to the selected personalities by the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan in March or April 2024 this year.

About Padma Award:

Padma Awards are among the highest civilian awards in the country. These awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
Padma awards are given in various subjects or fields of activity. These mainly include art, social work, public programs, science and engineering, business and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service etc.
The 'Padma Vibhushan' award is given for rendering exceptional and distinguished service.
For distinguished service of high order, he is decorated with 'Padma Bhushan' and for distinguished service in any field, he is honoured with 'Padma Shri'.
These awards are announced every year on the occasion of Republic Day.
These awards are presented by the President in organising a formal ceremony. The Padma Awards are usually held every year around March/April at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
This year’s 2024 list includes 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri awards. Among the 2024 award winners, 30 are also women.
The list also includes 8 individuals from the Foreigner/NRI/PIO/OCI category and 9 posthumous award winners.
Given below is the list of Padma Awards approved by the President for the year 2024.

Padma Vibhushan 2024:

Order	Name	Field	State/Territory/Country
1	Mrs. Vyjayantimala Bali	Art	Tamil Nadu
2	Konidela Chiranjeevi	Art	Andhra Pradesh
3	Sri M. Venkaiah Naidu	public works	Andhra Pradesh
4	Mr. Bindeshwar Pathak	social work	Bihar
5	Padma Subhramanyam	Art	Tamil Nadu

Padma Bhushan 2024:

Order	Name	Field
1	Ms M Fatima Beevi (posthumous)	public affairs
2	Shri Hormusji N Cama	Literature and Education-Journalism
3	Mr. Mithun Chakraborty	Art
4	Shri Sitaram Jindal	Trade and Industry
5	Mr Young Liu	Trade and Industry
6	Mr. Ashwin Balchand Mehta	Treatment
7	Shri Satyabrata Mukherjee (posthumous)	public affairs
8	Shri Ram Naik	public affairs
9	Mr. Tejas Madhusudan Patel	Patel Medical
10	Sri Olancherry Rajagopal	public affairs
11	Shri Dattatreya Ambadas Mayalu alias Rajdatta	Art
12	Mr. Togdan Rinpoche (posthumously)	Other - Spiritualism
13	Mr. Pyarelal Sharma	Art
14	Shri Chandeshwar Prasad Thakur	Treatment
15	Ms. Usha Uthup	Art
16	Shri Vijayakanth (posthumously)	Art
17	Mr. Kundan Vyas	Literature and Education-Journalism

Padma Shri 2024:

Order	Name	Field
1	Mr. Khalil Ahmed	Art
2	Mr. Badarappan M	Art
3	Shri Kaluram Bamania	Art
4	Ms. Rezwana Choudhary Bannya	Art
5	Ms. Naseem Bano	Art
6	Shri Ramlal Bareth	Art
7	Ms Geeta Roy Burman	Art
8	Ms. Parbati Baruah	social work sn name field
9	Mr. Sarbeswar Basumatary	Other - Agriculture
10	Mr. Som Dutt Battu	Art
11	Ms Takdira Begum	Art
12	Sri Satyanarayana Bellari	Other - Agriculture
13	Shri Drona Bhuiyan	Art
14	Mr. Ashok Kumar Biswas	Art
15	Mr. Rohan Machanda Bopanna	game
16	Ms Smriti Rekha Chakma	Art
17	Shri Narayan Chakraborty	science and engineering
18	Sri A Velu Anand Chari	Art
19	Shri Ram Chet Chaudhary	science and engineering
20	Ms K Chellammal	Other - Agriculture
21	Ms Joshna Chinappa	game
22	Ms. Charlotte Chopin	Other - Yoga
23	Mr. Raghuveer Chaudhary	literature and education
24	Mr. Joe D'Cruz	literature and education
25	Mr. Ghulam Nabi Dar	Art
26	Mr. Chitta Ranjan Debbarma	Other - Spiritualism
27	Shri Uday Vishwanath Deshpande	Game
29	Ms. Prema Dhanraj	Medicine
30	Sri Radha Krishna Dhiman	Medicine
31	Shri Manohar Krishna Dole	Medicine
32	Mr. Pierre Sylvain Filliozat	literature and education
33	Shri Mahabir Singh Guddu	Art
34	Ms. Anupama Hoskere	Art
35	Shri Rajaram Jain	literature and education
36	Shri Jankilal	Art
37	Mr. Ratan Kahar	Art
38	Shri Yashwant Singh Katoch	literature and education
39	Shri Zaheer I Qazi	literature and education
40	Mr. Gaurav Khanna	game
41	Mr. Surendra Kishore	Literature and Education-Journalism
42	Mr. Dasari Kondappa	Art
43	Sri Sridhar Makam Krishnamurthy	literature and education
44	Ms Yanung Jamoh Lego	Other - Agriculture
45	Mr. Jordan Lepcha	Art
46	Mr. Satendra Singh Lohia	game sn name field
47	Mr. Binod Maharana	Art
48	Ms. Purnima Mahato	game
49	Ms. Uma Maheshwari D	Art
50	Shri Dukhu Majhi	social work
51	Shri Ram Kumar Mallick	Art
52	Mr. Hemchand Manjhi	Treatment
53	Shri Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram	Treatment
54	Shri Surendra Mohan Mishra (Posthumous)	Art
55	Mr. Ali Mohammed and Mr. Ghani Mohammed* (Pair)	Art
56	Ms. Kalpana Morpariya	trade and industry
57	Ms. Chami Murmu	social work
58	Sri Sasindran Muthuvel	public affairs
59	Ms. G Nachiyar	Treatment
60	Ms. Kiran Nadar	Art
61	Sri Pakravur Chitran Namboodiripad (posthumous)	literature and education
62	Sri Narayanan EP	Art
63	Sri Shailesh Nayak	Art
64	Shri Harish Naik (posthumously)	literature and education
65	Mr. Fred Negrit	literature and education
66	Sri Hari Om	Science and Engineering
67	Shri Bhagwat Padhan	Art
68	Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal	Art
69	Shri Shankar Baba Pundalikrao Papalkar	social work
70	Shri Radhe Shyam Pareek	Treatment
71	Mr. Dayal Mavjibhai Parmar	parmar therapy
72	Mr. Binod Kumar Pasayat	Art
73	Ms. Silbi Passah	Art
74	Ms. Shanti Devi Paswan and Mr. Shivan Paswan	Art
75	Mr. Sanjay Anant Patil	Other - Agriculture
76	Shri Muni Narayan Prasad	literature and education
77	Shri KS Rajanna	social work
78	Shri Chandrashekhar Channapatna Rajannachar	Treatment
79	Shri Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit	literature and education
80	Mr. Romalo Ram	Art
81	Mr. Navjeevan Rastogi	literature and education
82	Ms Nirmal Rishi	Art
83	Mr. Pran Sabharwal	Art
84	Shri Gaddam Sammaiah	Art
85	Sri Sangthankima	social work
86	Mr. Machihan Sasa	Art
87	Mr. Omprakash Sharma	Art
88	Mr. Eklabya Sharma	Science and Engineering
89	Shri Ram Chander Sihag	Science and Engineering
90	Ms. Shashi Soni	trade and industry
91	Mr. Harbinder Singh	game
92	Mr. Gurvinder Singh	social work
93	Shri Godavari Singh	Art
94	Mr. Ravi Prakash Singh	Science and Engineering
95	Shri Seshampatti T. Shivalingam	Art
96	Mr. Somanna	social work
97	Mr. Kethvath Somlal	literature and education
98	Ms. Urmila Srivastava	Art
99	Shri Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (posthumous)	Art
100	Shri Gopinath Swain	Art
101	Shri Laxman Bhatt Tailang	Art
102	Ms. Maya Tandon	social work
103	Ms. Ashwathi Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bai Thampuratti	literature and education
104	Shri Jagdish Labhshankar Trivedi	Art
105	Ms Sano Wamuzo	social work
106	Sri Balakrishnan Sadanam Puthiya Veetil	Art
107	Mr. Kurella Vitthalacharya	literature and education
108	Mr. Kiran Vyas	Other - Yoga
109	Mr Jageshwar Yadav	social work
110	Shri Babu Ram Yadav	Art

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